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
It is said of Mohammed that when asked concerning the doctrine of
"fatalism" he would show more anger than at any other question that could
be put to him. He found it impossible to explain that while all knowledge
was God's, yet the individual was responsible for his own salvation, by
virtue of his good deeds and words. Nevertheless, it is not unlikely that
Mohammed possessed the key to this seeming riddle; but how could it be
possible to speak in a language which was totally incomprehensible to them
of this knowledge--the language of cosmic consciousness?
Like Jesus, who said: "Many things I have to tell you, but you can not bear
(understand) them now," so, we may well believe that Mohammed was
hard-pressed to find language comprehensible to his followers, in which to
explain the all-knowingness and all-powerfulness of God, and at the same
time, not have them fall into the error of the _fatal_ doctrine of
fatalism.
But throughout all his teachings Mohammed's chief concern seemed to be to
draw his people away from their worship of idols, and to this end he laid
constant and repeated emphasis upon the one-ness of God; the all-ness, the
completeness of the one God; always adding "_the Compassionate_, the
Loving."
This constant allusion to the all-ness of God is in line with
all who have attained to cosmic consciousness. Nothing more
impresses the illumined mind, than the fact that the universe is
One--uni--(one)--verse--(song)--one glorious harmony when taken in its
entirety, but when broken up and segregated, and set at variance, we
find discord, even as the score of a grand operatic composition when
played in unison makes perfect harmony but when incomplete, is
nerve-racking.
Like all inspired teachers, Mohammed taught the end of the world of sense,
and the coming of the day of judgment, and the final reign of peace and
love. This may, of course, be interpreted literally, and applied to a life
other than that which is to be lived on this planet, but it may also with
equal logic be assumed that Mohammed foresaw the dawn of cosmic
consciousness as a race-endowment, belonging to the inheritors of this
sphere called earth. In either event the ultimate is the same, whether the
one who suffers and attains, comes into his own in some plane or place in
the heavens, or whether he becomes at-one with God, The Absolute Love and
Power of the spheres, and "inherits the earth," in the days of the
on-coming higher degree of consciousness, which we are here considering.
That Mohammed realized the nothingness of form and ritual, except it be
accompanied by sincerity and understanding, is evident in the following:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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