In Search of the Miraculous

and will in man. Eastern allegory of the house and its servants. The "deputy

steward." Talks about a fakir on nails and Buddhist magic.

CHAPTER IV

General impressions of G.'s system. Looking backwards. One of the

fundamental propositions. The line of knowledge and the line of being. Being

on different levels Divergence of the line of knowledge from the line of being.

What a development of knowledge gives without a corresponding change of

being—and a change of being without an increase in knowledge. What

"understanding" means. Understanding as the resultant of knowledge and

being. The difference between understanding and knowledge. Understanding

as a function of three centers. Why people try to find names for things they do

not understand. Our language. Why people do not understand one another.

The word "man" and its different meanings. The language accepted in the

system. Seven gradations of the concept "man." The principle of relativity in the system. Gradations parallel to the gradations of man. The word "world."

Variety of its meanings. Examination of the word "world" from the point of view of the principle of relativity. The fundamental law of the universe. The law of

three principles or three forces. Necessity of three forces for the appearance

of a phenomenon. The third force. Why we do not see the third force. Three

forces in ancient teachings. The creation of worlds by the will of the Absolute.

A chain of worlds or the "ray of creation." The number of laws in each world.

CHAPTER V

A lecture on the "mechanics of the universe." The ray of creation and its

growth from the Absolute. A contradiction of scientific views. The moon as the

end of the ray of creation. The will of the Absolute. The idea of miracle. Our

place in the world. The moon feeds on organic life. The influence of the moon

and liberation from the moon. Different "materiality" of different worlds. The world as a world of "vibrations." Vibrations slow down proportionately to thedistance from the Absolute. Seven kinds of matter. The four bodies of man

and their relation to different worlds. Where the earth is. The three forces and

the cosmic properties of matter. Atoms of complex substances. Definition of

matter according to the forces manifested through it. "Carbon," "oxygen,"

"nitrogen," and "hydrogen." The three forces and the four matters. Is man immortal or not? What does immortality mean? A man having the fourth body.

The story of the seminarist and the omnipotence of God. Talks about the