Course XXX - Teaching 4: Philosophy of Being

The Philosophy of Being is Philosophy of the Divine Manifestation exclusively considered in se.
The Universe is not a unique, absolute force, but a dual force, two immense currents in parallel that come near and move away but never are fused in one.
These two cosmic forces are: Spirit and Substance. Neither one nor the other is permanently superior, but one of them prevails in certain cases.
A philosopher has to know these two motive forces of the Universe: Spirit, an invisible force, and Substance, a visible force.
Since the Spirit adapts to conditions of the Substance in order to manifest in it and later for its own liberation, it is indispensable to know the Cosmic Substance in all its parts in order to know the Universe.
Since this dual expression of the Universe is not a unity, its reproduction is continuous and leaves room to infinite forces like it.
During this continuous becoming, since the Spirit tries to dignify the Substance and to get the final Liberation, makes use of mind as primary instrument.
For these philosophers, mind is the expression of the Spirit; the thought force, fixed in matter, is energy of the Universe expressed through continuous movements and changes.
Since inertia is a quality of the Substance, finally another force overcomes the latter.
Then Philosophy is based on the knowledge of these three cosmic aspects: Mind, an expression of the Spirit; Matter, an expression of the Substance; and Movement, an energetic force of the Spirit’s course when the latter joins to the Substance, and vice versa.
The study of these Schools was fundamentally speculative.
The philosopher asked: What is Substance? And he replied: I shall not advance in my studies until Y may know the Substance of the Universe; I shall not know the Substance of the Universe until can know all its qualities, actions and reactions, forms and measures, intimate aspects and differentiated aspects. Later he asked: What is there between Substance and Spirit: void or an infinite force? And he replied: spaces between Substance and Spirit are filled by vibrations of Cosmic Energy, not by the void; I have to know all vibratory force before I may go forward.
Then he asked: What is the Spirit? And he replied: the Spirit is super-essence of thought; I cannot know the Spirit until I can know all forms of thought and of its derivations.
He started his studies after these questions that are postulates of this Philosophy.
This Philosophy fostered in the Aryan Race an extraordinary knowledge of all values of life and fundamentally led its students to be materialistic, dualistic or theistic.
The student investigated the qualities of the substance of the Being and got positive and very useful results for Humanity and extraordinary personal satisfaction, but at the same time, he spent too much time on this subject and neglected the two remaining parts: the study of Metaphysics and the study of an essential understanding of the Spirit.
They followed the fundamental postulates but neglected the two first. They did not study and think in depth, and at the same time were unaware of the real nature and existence of the Spirit, and had to admit definitions from precedent Masters instead of results of their own personal research.
So, since the essence of the Spirit was not directly studied, it became something superior, inaccessible to these Philosophers; it became the personal God.
This Philosophy was destined to enter the arcana of the King from Arcana of Nature; and periodically there were movements to give it back its pristine purity but without a fundamental success because the lower postulates were neglected or they formed characteristic philosophies detached from the Mother Idea.
The early students would studied through several course different manifestations of the Cosmic Substance and later were promoted to superior Schools where they were devoted to analyze energies and phenomena of Nature, and psychical phenomena of being. This course lasted several years, and many remained here behind, since the lifetime of man is too short for so vast research.
We owe to these Philosophers every extraordinary breakthrough in the study of material energy and control of atmospheric forces.
Later, the students entered a third school, where they learnt the expression of the Spirit through thought.
If these Philosophers had established their viewpoint in the world, they could have become semi-gods. This Philosophy was in the Aryan Race a useful seed to give life to other infinite Philosophies by means of its concepts.