EACH human being is an incarnation of his God, in other words, is one with his “Father in Heaven,” just as Jesus said. As there are many men on earth, so there are many Gods in Heaven; and yet these Gods are in reality ONE, for at the end of a period of activity they are withdrawn, like the rays of the setting sun, into the Parent Luminary, the Non-Manifested LOGOS, which in its turn is merged into the ABSOLUTE.

Shall we call these “Fathers” of ours, whether individually or collectively, and under any circumstances, our personal Gods? Occultism answers, Never.

All that an average man can know of his heavenly “Father” is what he knows of himself, through and within himself. The soul of his “Father” is incarnated in him. This soul is himself, if he be successful in assimilating the Divine Individuality while in his physical, animal shell.

As to the Spirit thereof, as well expect to be heard by the Absolute. Our prayers and supplications are vain, unless to potential words and potent acts, and make the Aura which surrounds each one of us so pure and divine, that the God within us may act outwardly, or in other words, may become as it were an extraneous Potency.

Thus have Initiates, Saints, and very holy and pure men been enabled to help others as well as themselves in the hour of need, and produce what are foolishly called miracles, each by the help and with the aid of the God within himself, which he alone has enabled to act on the outward plane of being.

The word AUM or OM (equivalent to the modern I AM), if pronounced by a very holy or pure man, will draw out, or awaken, not only the less exalted Potencies residing in the planetary spaces and elements, but even in his Higher Self, or the “Father” within him.

Pronounced by an averagely good man in the correct way, it will help to strengthen him morally, especially if between two “AUMS” he meditates intently upon the AUM within him, concentrating all his attention upon the ineffable Presence.

But woe to the man who pronounces it after the commission of some far-reaching sin; he will only thereby attract to his own impure photosphere invisible inimical Presences and Forces which could not otherwise break through the Divine Envelope.

AUM is the original of AMEN. Now, Amen is not a Hebrew term, but, like the word Hallelujah, was borrowed by the Jews and Greeks from the Chaldees. The latter word is often found repeated in certain magical inscriptions upon cups and urns among the Babylonian and Ninevean relics. Amen does not mean “so be it,” or “verily,” but signified in hoary antiquity almost the same as AUM.

The Jewish Tanaim (Initiates) used it for the same reason as the Aryan Adepts use AUM, and with like success. Both words mean the affirmation of the being, or existence, of the sexless “Lord” within us. —The Secret Doctrine Vol. III, pages 449-50.

TO TREAD the path the Saviour trod, Upright and unafraid; Calm and serene to march with God, On the road that He has paved.

On Love’s great mission I am bent To serve and heal and bless. I know He is Omnipotent And fills my nothingness.

With Power and radiant Light Divine, That shines so true and strong, And fills you full, oh Soul of mine, With a heartfelt, joyous song.

And giving out this Power and Light To every living soul, My Christ will guide me thus aright To attain my goal.

—Paddy O’Shea.

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