Few people in the West have been able to pass the causeway leading to nature’s storehouse of wisdom instruction. Very few have been able to tap that consciousness in nature’s keeping, which is symbolized to the outside world as “the hidden fruit within nature’s veil.” Today we can only suggest those things to the man who is able to comprehend.
Mortal man sees through a glass darkly and knows little of his rightful inheritance. The Yogi student stands apart and alone in his quest for Truth. If he is earnest and sincere in his devotion, there will come a time when nature will lift her veil. He will then be able to enter into her consciousness.
If the student will seek for Truth only in the consciousness of nature, the veil of illusion will be rent, and he will perceive light in the midst of the darkness of his own time. Nature has her science, her obligation to the Creator, and, as we study her systems of government, we discover the scientific application of her laws. By being positive and direct in aspiration for her truth, she will give us the fruits of former harvests, long forgotten in our world activity.
Our man in nature possesses a wealth of information and knowledge, and a wide range of wisdom experience. Being ignorant of this information stored up in us, we have never sought to draw upon it. In Yoga, during each incarnation, we pass through the information periods of our past lives, so that our man-in-nature1 can return to us these higher possessions. The Yogi seeks union with God, with the Lord God of Truth, within which all things exist, and which exists in all things.
When the student notices that the “director” atom within his body is contacting him with his “man-in-nature,” he is conscious of a hymn of praise going on within him, which later becomes a paean of victory, when he forges the link with the divine guidance which is within him.
He then becomes conscious that our sun has a foster parent. Previously, the sun in our physical world was observed by him, but now he also recognizes the sun within his inner worlds, and the difference is like the passing from heat to light. In that light there is quietness and peace and he senses the immensity and grandeur of peace. He discovers that its vibrations multiply things, and that it constantly multiplies the unseen wave which carries the consciousness of truth and intelligence within it.
In this vibration there is an ever widening pulsation, which he feels throughout his body and mental atmosphere, and in it his aspiration seems to be taken up and multiplied. The devas speak of this light as the pulsating chord in nature, for it shuts down and nullifies the activities of the lower mind, until it seemingly ceases to exist. By this light we discover that man’s human mind can be purified and illuminated by the spirit of truth, which can unify the consciousness with its vibration.
In Yoga practice we become conscious of that light which is always above our mind world, from which the devas receive their directing impulses. The individual mind, while retaining identity, seems to have passed into the mind which embraces everything. One realizes this light permeates the world of mind and the world of memory. It is the brooding consciousness of light and intelligence.2
Here things are realized without thought, the energy that we formerly used in thinking disappears, and we absorb the consciousness which we have attained, and bask in an infinite and great reality.
Few men have been able to enter into their rightful domain, for living in an era of ignorance, we have become chained to the wheel of circumstance and must remain so until we can enter into nature’s consciousness. The key to this door of knowledge is aspiration and, in order to aspire, we must have a one-pointed mind to know ourselves.3
Man looks about him in his own world and considers himself to be the supreme thing that has actual existence. He looks at the sun and moon, the plants and trees, as he looks upon a painting; he does not conceive that anything could have greater intelligence than himself. He regards everything as created for his pleasure and support and does not realize that he is in fact an exile from nature’s providence. He has been driven from her domains for disobedience of her law. He thinks in his ignorance that he is greater than the cause.4
If man will aspire to learn and live according to the laws of nature, he will be allowed again to enter nature’s consciousness and become unified with her movements and intelligence. Thus he regains his lost inheritance.
The union of man’s will with nature’s will brings about the regeneration of man’s entire being. He becomes a man of God, and nature will give him those fruits most needed for his development.
After long periods of aspiration for Truth, the student is told to conceive of another being like himself, which is to stand beside him and be joined to him. This being he is to create or reassemble as an elemental lord of Truth. This concept will assist him in his development and help him to enter nature’s consciousness. The student is like a magician assembling his own “man-in-nature,” in a form similar to that which he now occupies, but with a body of truth. This bodyguard is a protective force, and contains all his pure aspirations and thoughts assembled before he left elemental nature to build up the present form in which he lives. The student protects himself by unifying himself with his own elemental thought form which exists in nature, but of which he has not been conscious until he took up this practice of Yoga.
Nature has ensouled all our purer and finer thoughts, built up through many incarnations, in the form of our guardian angel. We have also built up another thought form composed of all our evil thoughts and desires, which exists as our secret enemy. We have spoken of this in our former book, The Dayspring of Youth.
Nature makes known her laws to humanity, when man is ready to profit by them. When the student seeks to obey these laws and becomes subject to her jurisprudence, she will quickly remedy the natural conditions with which she scourges humanity. The simplicity of nature’s laws is indicative of her greatness, and an understanding of her laws is necessary for man’s readjustment. We can redeem humanity only when man is worthy to resume his place in nature’s consciousness, so that her beauty and understanding may be known to the common mind. Then intolerance and misunderstanding between nations will disappear, and the primordial, brooding spirit descends into our human consciousness and makes us akin to nature and to man.
The greatest discovery for any man is to find his own note and instrument in nature’s symphony, and realize and understand that he is a part of her manifestation and creation. When this is discovered, its application is exceedingly simple. It exists as a harmonizing essence within nature’s bindery note, which dissipates misunderstanding and contention.
If men would only sit down in harmony one with another, all differences would fade away and a natural understanding between man and man would result. Where there is peace there is also prosperity and an eagerness to acquire knowledge. This is the foundation of man’s true character and expression. This force in nature is the fulcrum of the universe, and its activity and knowledge can be gained, and its harmonizing effect be perceived by all men.
It is this force that will unite the lion and the lamb in peaceful contentment, for it will abolish fear5 and give the power of discrimination, which is the power to stand alone. It is said that Yogis who receive large gifts of money from their disciples lose the power of discrimination, for the donor so gains power over the donee. It has been written that money is the second power in this world as wisdom is the first, hence the power to stand alone in the Presence is difficult to attain.
In Asia, on the boundaries of Tibet, there is a place known as “Heaven.” It is the supposed abode of the immortals, the men who never die. A friend of mine, a great traveler and teacher of Yoga, went there with two companions and tried to enter the place. When they arrived at its natural wall a being appeared and spoke to them in perfect Sanskrit, telling them that they must not try to come further. One may well ask if these, through great tribulation, are not now perfectly attuned to the bindery note of nature?
