Course XXX - Teaching 2: Concept of Philosophy about “Non-being”

In times of those civilizations that today are entirely ignored, philosophical problems of the sages in prehistoric peoples were eminently super-physical.
Hardly interested in knowing the laws of the Universe, their only desire was to know the fundamental principle of the Cosmos and what would exist beyond this primordial concept.
Their questions and answers are simple and clear:
God has made the Universe. Who has made God?
The Cosmic principle has given rise to God. Then, God is the result of a Unique Power.
Now, where this Unique Power is from?
It becomes by itself; by its power of moving. And this moving is manifestation and non-manifestation. Where is from this power of Being and Non-Being?
This power of Being and Non-Being becomes by an essence than is equal to Him, non-manifested, unknown. In Philosophers’ words, then we should reflect on this non-manifested essence to know where this essence is from; and if we reflect on it, then it shall stop being non-manifested or unknown.
Therefore, we cannot reach this solution by mental knowledge but supposedly by a state that is like Non-Manifested.
So, these Philosophers based their mental process by this negative method.
This investigative method required years of experimentation.
Not that. So, Not that other. So, why Not if nothing is?
This refers to the mental work.
The first stage of this Philosophy is dedicated to the elimination of mental vibrations produced by emotions, and also to the elimination of mental emotions.
Thought had not to arouse any emotion in the student; it could quietly analyze love, crime, death or happiness, not feeling positive or negative stimulus.
In the second stage, the Philosopher had to extinguish the mental cause of knowledge, the fact that one knows all in parts; this was necessary to be able to deny the consistency of thoughts.
Study was necessary to acquire knowledge and to possess it as fully as to be able to reject it later as truths that are not real, unique or true.
At the end, when one possesses the essence of knowledge, any thought is an obstacle for the pure state of similarity of the soul with God.
Mental vibrations in all are a result of mental non-vibration as expression of the unique mental vibration.
So, one cannot know an unknown God through mental knowledge but by means of a state of ecstatic understanding that may be like Him.
For instance, this would imply that, in the first year one studied seven subjects, in the sixth year we would study only two and at the end of the course, only one, which involved the whole knowledge, so that this subject would be integral.
But when this integral knowledge had been acquired, one denied it because were unaware of its root; so, it was not known as such. Therefore, mind should be hidden to leave room to tranquility and peace. The third stage was dedicated to the annihilation of the mind and to expect a purely spiritual knowledge.
This philosophy, entirely discarded today, has laid the foundations of all religions and mystical cultures in all times.
The Buddha was the last true exemplar of this very high Philosophy.
Now, someone not versed in the study of the true philosophy mistakes the latter for gross atheism and denial of existence. But it is not so.
A Philosopher neither denies nor affirms God. He refuses to discern about Him.
The Buddha says: “If you ask if I believe in God or not, I shall not affirm or deny it: but I shall say there is only one necessary thing: to enter the Path. If an arrow is thrusting into your chest, you shall not wonder who has hurt you or where that arrow came from, if it is poisoned and of what matter is composed, because this way you just would waste time and would die for sure. First you have to remove this arrow and to heal the wound”.
These philosophers do not deny the existence of life by the “non-existence”, but their only desire is to go beyond these states to get a partial knowledge of what transcends existence and non-existence, because “existence” and “non-existence” are affirmations.
So, you never should seek in these philosophers a definition of states that they call of Existence and Non-Existence, or an explanation of these states.
Also you should not expect that they may speak of God like Manifested or Non-Manifested but that they may just refer to knowledge that leads to knowledge of God.
These so pure and great Philosophies, in which man was able to come close to the shadow of the Eternal Unknown, gradually disappeared as the Aryan Race advanced to conquering Reason, positive results of the World, and forces of Nature.