SPACE

In Biblical writings we read the words: In Him we live and move and have our being. In Eastern philosophy we hear the statement: Aham Brahmaasmi: I am Brahma – Brahma here referring to the all-pervading presence in which everything moves, lives and has its being. We could, in fact, replace these two revelatory statements with the one word: Omnipresence, which has its basis in the substance of the universe and in what present-day scientists call the ether.

The two quotes given above may evoke a potent and meaningful response upon reflection, and may conjure in the imagination a visualisation of a Transcendental Being far beyond our present powers of recognition. Exploring beyond the ring-pass-not of our collective mind-set, we seek, through the processes of common sense and insightful reasoning, a glimpse of the Universal Mind of which our little concrete minds are perhaps a minuscule part, for in the Life processes of the microscopic we may discover, through the Law of Correspondences, some revelation into the Life of the macroscopic.

If we regard the atom as a single measure of objective space, we see it as an entity in itself, teeming with energy and activity and limited by the ring-pass-not of its atomic structure; the Law of Attraction and Repulsion then becomes the fundamental mechanism operating within that atom for the building of future forms and capacities which will be far greater than its present expression; in this way  the atom becomes the active building block of the Omnipresence: a single unit of space constituting the microcosm within the Macrocosm. Absolute Space is then an Unknown Entity teeming with Life and energy and nowhere within the space are there empty pockets of nothingness. The Russian dolls that fit one into the other is a good analogy for the nature of space: Life within Life, within an even Greater Life . . . ad infinitum.

As the building process proceeds and after much time has passed, the atomic units develop quite naturally into more objective forms until finally a variety of minerals are established as the first kingdom earthed within space. The mineral kingdom (as diversified as it is) would have a limited sensitivity to the vast range of energies that circulate within the limitless space, when compared to those forms which will evolve later as a second kingdom, the vegetable kingdom. A flower, for instance, responds more sensitively to the energies of the sun when compared with that of iron or other minerals; its capacity to react more sensitively to that great body of light is demonstrated through its beautiful colours, shapes and scents. In a similar way, the advanced forms of the animal kingdom are more receptive to the finer energies within space which empower them with the rudimentary intelligence of Universal Mind (instinct), and which the animal in turn radiates into the surrounding space through a more active and intelligent livingness.

We come next to the fourth kingdom, the human, with its superior life-form and ever-widening capacity to encompass finer and more diverse energies within the Omnipresent Being in which he lives. In time, and through due process, he transcends even the human form and becomes aligned to more subtle and powerful energies which make him a part of what we call the fifth or spiritual kingdom: Those Who are directly in touch with Universal Mind.

All these movements, developments and expansions are forever taking place within the Entity, Space, through the instrumentality of time and energy/substance . . . this indefinable energy/substance being an extension of Him in Whom we live, move and have our being.

Space, then, is the medium of conveyance for an enormous range of energies within the One in Whom we live. All beings then – great and small, seen or unseen – are fndamentally interrelated through the energy/substance of space. We all live, move, and indeed have our collective being in the vast ocean of Omnipresence, there being no difference in the essential Life within the individual parts. The apparent differences lie only in the constitution of the form, and in the capacity, or lack of, to perceive and register – through that form – the fullness of the Universal Being in Whom we all swim.

The true scientist or metaphysicist is happy to go where no man has gone before; he is bold and daring enough to assume the possibility of unravelling the answers to the universe. We have seen over the last millennia or so an enormous leap of understanding in the explorations of science, a d there is much further to go. This opening of the mind confirms the fact that the concrete mind, when applied intelligently and painstakingly to detail, does indeed partake of Universal Mind – but only through the development of the lower mind by direct contact with the Intuitive Mind. This is indeed the blessed link in space to more subtle dimensions; it is the intuitive link which connects the part to the Whole.

As we leave the ring-pass-not of the developed concrete mind and learn to use the penetrative faculties of the Intuitive Mind; as we release our attached fixation to the known, and dare to enter the dimensions of the, as yet, Unknown, so will we come to penetrate more easily the nature of this Omnipresence in which we live, move, and have our being. The requirement for this is ever an ongoing expansion in consciousness, the attainment of which, is ever the result of intelligent response to beckoning opportunity.

Space is a vital and vibrant expression of an Omnipresent Life . . . a field for the intelligent activity and evolution of the indwelling lives therein.

“The glory of man lies in the fact that he is aware of space and can imagine this space as the field of divine living activity, full of active intelligent forms, each placed in this limitless space and related to each other through the potency which not only holds them in being but which preserves their position in relation to each other; yet each of these differentiated forms possess its own differentiated life, its own unique quality or integral colouring, and its own specific and peculiar form of consciousness.” Thus speak the wise.