Knowing

<p>But the Arcane Teaching does not hold to Decree and Foreknowledge, either in a Personal Deity or in the Cosmic Mind. Its Aphorism denies the “existence of Decree and Foreknowledge in the Cosmic Mind.” It says that “When the Cosmic Mind ‘knows’ a thing or event, it knows according to

Law, and the knowing and the manifestation are simultaneous.” For when the Cosmic Brain “thinks” or “knows” a thing or event—then the “thought” becomes a thing or event, and is actually manifested. The Cosmic Mind knows only what is existent, for what it knows is manifested because of the knowing. And what it knows, it knows because of the manifestation. In the Cosmic Mind, knowing and manifestation are identical— simultaneous—one. The Cosmos is the only Being that exists and can know the Cosmic Activities. Other than itself there is naught but The Law, which is above Being, and above Knowing, and above Action, as we know those terms. Any attempt to attribute to The Absolute the qualities, attributes, and properties of Man, inevitably results in postulating a Personal Deity, whose All‑Knowledge is the Predestination of the Universe—whose will, decree, and fiat, is Fate. And in that case upon that Deity must be placed the responsibility for everything that happens in the universe.</p>