Cosmic Consciousness: The Man-God Whom We AwaitMcIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
Religion
Cosmic Consciousness: The Man-God Whom We Await
McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
Theosophy
The sense of unity which is so inseparable from the cosmic conscious
state, was always uppermost in Emerson's mind. Neither did he ever
present as unity that state of consciousness that may be termed
organization-consciousness--group-consciousness it is often called. He
realized that the person who stands for Individualism is much more than
apt to recognize his indissoluble relationship with the Cosmos. A
perception of unity is a complement of Individualism.
That which, in modern metaphysical phraseology, is best termed "The
Absolute," was expressed by Emerson as the Over-Soul, and this term meant
something much greater, more unescapable than the anthropomorphic God of
the church-goers. His assurance of unity with this Divine Spiritual Essence
was perfect. It savors more of what is termed the religious view of life
than of the philosophic, but we contend that in the coming era of the
cosmic conscious man, all life will be religious, in the true sense, and
that there will be no dividing line between philosophy and worship, because
worship will consist of living the life of the spiritual man, and not in
any set forms or rites. Bearing upon this we find Emerson saying:
"Not thanks, not prayer, seem quite the highest or truest name for our
communion with the infinite--but glad and conspiring reception--reception
that becomes giving in its turn as the receiver is only the All-Giver in
part and in infancy. I cannot--nor can any man--speak precisely of things
so sublime, but it seems to me the wit of man, his strength, his grace, and
his tendency, his art, is the grace and the presence of God. It is beyond
explanation. When all is said and done, _the rapt saint is found the only
logician._ Not exhortation nor argument becomes our lips, but paeans of joy
and praise. But not of adulation; we are too nearly related in the deep of
the mind to that we honor. It is God in us that checks the language of
petition by a grander thought. In the bottom of the heart it is said, 'I am
and by me, O child, this fair body and world of thine stands and grows; I
am, all things are mine; and all mine are thine.'"
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