THE UNKNOWABLE ESSENCE

All the people have formed a god in the world of thought, and that form of

their own imagination they worship; when the fact is that the imagined

form is finite and the human mind is infinite. Surely the infinite is

greater than the finite, for imagination is accidental while the mind is

essential; surely the essential is greater than the accidental.

Therefore consider: All the sects and peoples worship their own thought;

they create a god in their own minds and acknowledge him to be the creator

of all things, when that form is a superstition--thus people adore and

worship imagination.

That Essence of the Divine Entity and the Unseen of the unseen is holy

above imagination and is beyond thought. Consciousness doth not reach It.

Within the capacity of comprehension of a produced reality that Ancient

Reality cannot be contained. It is a different world; from it there is no

information; arrival thereat is impossible; attainment thereto is

prohibited and inaccesible. This much is known: It exists and Its

existence is certain and proven--but the condition is unknown.

All the philosophers and the doctors knew that It is, but they were

perplexed in the comprehension of Its existence and were at last

discouraged, and in great despair they left this world. For the

comprehension of the condition and mysteries of that Reality of realities

and Mystery of mysteries there is need for another power and another

sense. That power and sense is not possessed by mankind, therefore they

have not found any information. For example: If a man possess the power of

hearing, the power of tasting, the power of smelling and the power of

feeling, but no power of seeing, he cannot see. Hence, through the powers

and senses present in man the realization of the Unseen Reality, which is

pure and holy above the reach of doubts, is impossible. Other powers are

needed and other senses required. If those powers and senses are obtained,

then information can be had; otherwise, not.

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