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{{Style P-Title|A Fragment}}<ref name="v2-p471-n1">Read before Ramayana Theosophical Society, Chicago, IU., June 24th, 1888, by Mrs. M. M. Phelon, f.t.s.</ref>

FROM a manuscript, so old no man knows when it was written, commencing where it treats of “The Beginning,” we read the following: –

Silence is Power. Power is the Real. Silence, then, must be the Real. That which lives, moves, and gives being, of itself the Real, lies always in the Silence. When all manifestation has ceased, Silence ''is.'' Consequently, the Real must be, even if there is no manifestation.

Through cycles of aeons It, in-drawn, has meditated, conscious of nought but the action of its own thought – the thought which is Itse lf. It perceives not Itself because It is That Self, intent on the connected current or sequence of that in which It is concerned, and not in the thought itself, or Himself. There is no time. There is no space There is nothing but the Oneness.

The Creative Thought, acting from the desire for manifestation, clears, and steadies itself within the circumference that is boundless. Within is the centre. Thought reaches from the centre to the circumference. As man’s thought clears itself; as his mentality steadies, after longcontinued strain, and the thing which was hidden or doubtful seems lighted by the clearness of his perception, so the Creative Thought of Infinite Power, acting in the same manner, produces light as the veryfirst outward sign of manifestation. As a man awaking from sleep becomes settled in mentality, so the light of Creative Thought from

T hat, reservoir of all thought,<ref name="v2-p472-n1">In Indian philosophy this absolute Deity is always referred to as “That” (Tad) and “It.” It is “the reservoir of all thought” because it is absolute thought; which having no relation to the finite and the conditioned, cannot be premised as something individual or separate from the universal mind, and minds. It is the causeless cause of every manifesting intellection, the eternal Source of all.</ref> breaks upon the darkness, multiplying the memories of that which was by the deductions of that which may be the resultant or outcome of the long sleep or withdrawal of Brahm&amp;.

The line of Creative Thought moves on. Forms of beauty, shapes of harmony, and the untold millions of sequences fill that which has hitherto been the Silence. But it is still the Silence. That which we apprehend through personal sense, is apprehended only by Unity as the onflowing of the current of Creative Thought. No sound as we know it ever breaks upon Its consciousness. No emotion of sight, as we perceive it, is ever cognised by It. Between It and us, as one broad ground of approach is simply motion – motion which is life. The Creative Thought projected by its own potency sets in motion all the ingathered forces of Unity.

The rolling millions upon millions of stars; the conditions of all the Universe, are simply Its robings – manifestations – the coverings of Brahma, or God manifested. One pole is the Infinite and Eternal One, the other is the manifestation, or shadowing forth of the Perfect Man, named by all the wise, as the Christ of the Ages.

The Logos thinks.<ref name="v2-p472-n2">Bccausc the Logos is manifested; but the ever-concealed Deity does not, since It is ABSOLUTE thought, and cannot be spoken of as we would of an individual personal Thinker. But then the Logos in the East is the synthesis, the collective aggregate of all the Gods or Powers in the manifested universe. – [Ed.]</ref> Potency vibrates; all existence surrounding the central line of thought, the line of experience and knowledge, also vibrates. Through these vibrations, this thought, in its grosser form called Ether,<ref name="v2-p472-n3">£ And in its highest it is Akasa. – [Ed,]</ref> can be recognised, understood and studied. From it spring all the phenomena that man considers the result of law.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and without Him, was nothing made that was made. It was the beginning of an Infinite cycle, extending through immensity, and ending in the countless. As the evening and the morning were the first day, so Brahm and Brahma are Unity and Law.