That “keynote” is a direct
manifestation of the Higher Self which uses it to impress and govern the Personality it has
created. But alas, part of its life has been infused into the material side of its being,
which has thus obtained a certain will of its own and only too often are the two sides of
our nature at war.
At last there comes a time when the spirit is too weary to strive
with the recalcitrant flesh, when “the voice of the silence”
ceases.
The earthly nourishment we may seek to give, will not avail to
sustain a form when this harmonious sound, this“word from
heaven” no longer reverberates through the empty void of the celestial
archetype,[pg 100]for “man lives not by bread alone,” but by
the WORD, and the last sound-vibration of the “keynote” is
the death-knell of the physical body.
In this world we are compelled to investigate and to study a
thing before we know about it, and although the facilities for gaining information are in
some respects much greater in the Desire World, a certain amount of investigation is
necessary nevertheless to acquire knowledge. In the World of Thought, on the contrary, it is
different. When we wish to know about any certain thing there, and we turn our attention
thereto, then that thing speaks to us, as it were. The sound it emits at once gives us a
most luminous comprehension of every phase of its nature. We attain to a realization of its
past history; the whole story of its unfoldment is laid bare and we seem to have lived
through all of those experiences together with the thing we are investigating.
Were it not for one enormous difficulty, the story thus obtained
would be exceedingly valuable. But all this information, this life-picture, flows in upon us
with an enormous rapidity in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, so that it has neither
beginning nor end,[pg 101]for, as said, in the World of Thought, all is one great NOW, Time does not
exist.
Therefore, when we want to use the archetypal information in the
Physical World, we must disentangle and arrange it in chronological order with beginning and
ending before it becomes intelligible to beings living in a realm where Time is a prime
factor. That rearrangement is a most difficult task as all words are coined with relation to
the three dimensions of space and the evanescent unit of time, the fleeting moment, hence
much of that information remains unavailable.
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