"GOD" AND "SELF" 
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of Heaven and in the Superior Man. (Not George Nathaniel 
Curzon, however.) It was in the Blossoms of Springtide, and 
in the chilling winds that swept over from Siberia, and in the 
Wild Geese that it bore Southward when their instinct bade 
them. In short, the catalogue began to look as if it were going 
to extend indefinitely; and an impatient disciple, pointing to 
certain traces left by a mule in its recent passage, asked: And 
is the Tao also in that? The Master nodded, and echoed: Also 
in that. 
Then what becomes of this privileged 'us'? We are obliged 
to extend it to include everything. Then, as we have just seen, 
'God' also is unfettered by definitions. 
Net result : "God within us" means precisely nothing at all. 
And so it does, by Brahman! 
"Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among 
you between anyone thing and any other thing; for 
thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this. 
let him be the chief of all!" (AL . I: 22-23) 
I implore you not to point out that , this being the case, 
words like 'hurt' and 'chief' cannot possibly mean anything. 
The fact is that if we are to get on peaceably in the Club, we 
have to know when to take any given expression in a 
Pickwickian sense. 
In the Ruach all the laws of logic apply: they don't in 
Neschamah. 
The real meaning of the passage is simple enough, if you 
understand that it refers to a specific result of Initiation. You 
have to be able to reckon up the Universe, as a whole and in 
every part; and to get rid of all its false or partial realities by 
discarding everything but the One Reality which is the sole 
truth in, and of, Illusion. 
There is one set of equations which expresses the relation 
of the Perceiver and the Perceived, adjusted in accordance 
with the particular limitations on both sides; another cancels 
out all the finite terms, and leaves us with an ultimate 
x = 0 = 0° . 
See?