Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
self, for there was nothing else at the time. Our three conclusions, therefore, are:
(1) God held a mental image of light,
(2) he thought of making a phenomenon after the image held in his mind, and
(3) his own existence supplied the material which became our light,
This is how light came into manifestation. There was the desire to create light, coupled with its image in the divine mind; and these constituted the essentials of manufacturing. The process of world-making, thus, amounted to the projection of an idea into an actuality of perception, and closely resembled the one by which our dreams are made.
As a result of the foregoing analysis of the theistic theory of creation, we are entitled to say that what enables the Creator to create the universe is his power of image-making, that is, the faculty of Imagination. The Vedantist calls this image-making faculty of mind "maya ;” the Sufi calls it" kuwwat-z-khayal ;” and in English it is termed imagination. But whatever its name, it is the one and the only power that is creative in nature.
Mind, or imagination, being, thus, the creative force in nature, it is easy to understand that the notion of the creation of an universe from nought would be directly strengthened by the phenomena of dreams, which immature reason is apt to regard as devoid of all pretensions to substantiveness, hence, as originating from pure nothing. It is a remarkable fact, and one which will have very far-reaching consequences, that while the