All Things Were Made by Him

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. … All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
_{John 1:1, 3-4}

These moving and meaningful statements made by Saint John in describing the Divine Word of God are among the best known in the entire New Testament. But it is safe to say that their true meaning is one of the least known of all facts in the entire teachings of the Bible.

Should you ask any representative group of Western Christians what Saint John meant by the Word that was with God and was God, you would receive in all probability a diversity of answers.…

To the spiritual Masters, of both the past and the present, however, the Word referred to in this passage … is not a spoken or written word or teaching. It is something entirely different.

What, then, is the Divine Word?
It is a power, the omnipresent and omnipotent creative and sustaining spiritual power of the Supreme Lord God. Emanating from the Creator in the form of a current or wave of spiritual vibrations of immeasurably powerful intensity, it flows outwards without ceasing to permeate and penetrate all worlds and all created things and beings.

All life and energy in the universe come from the Divine Word. It is a power that is mightier than any known on earth, for it is the power behind all other powers. All other powers are finite, but this power is infinite. It is the one basic power in the universe. It shows itself in many apparently different forms of energy; but trace them back to their original source and they are all found to be fundamentally one – the dynamic power of God. It dwells hidden, but supremely active, at the back of all other energy.

The Word is the incalculable power that controls the movements of the suns and planets in their orbits. It is the tremendous power that binds together the particles in the nucleus of the atom – the greatest force as yet discovered by scientists of today. In it abides all the energy of the universe, either latent or dynamic. It requires only the proper conditions to express itself as dynamic force or, as some of the eastern masters have called it, God in action. It has many forms of expression, most of which are as yet unknown to the scientists of today.

At this point it should be noted that this great power, the Divine Word of God, is the basic factor in the Yoga or spiritual science of the Masters. It is the very foundation of all true Masters’ teachings, and the principal factor that distinguishes their method of spiritual development from all others. It is the one fact by which a real Master may be known, for no one is or can be a genuine Master unless he teaches and practises the Divine Word.

Like electricity in the air, the Word or Holy Spirit of God is everywhere present. It permeates the universe and is immanent in every individual and in every other created thing. Its omnipresence helps to explain the omnipresence of God.

In recent years the scientists have found that energy exists everywhere, and is present in every atom of matter throughout the universe. Einstein showed that matter and energy are actually only different forms of the same thing. Scientists no longer talk about matter and energy separately. They are identical, and this is so because all matter is built up of atoms that contain the boundless energy of God. Everything that exists in the material world is energy, electric vibration in one or another form. Even the very stones and rocks are interpenetrated by the God-life of their atoms. So tremendous is this power that according to the scientists, enough of it is locked up in a teaspoonful of water to raise a load of five million tons from sea level to the top of Mount Everest.…

This is true of our physical bodies, as well as of the air, and all the material objects that surround us, and because of this we are with and within God every moment of our lives. He is not far away. Wherever else He may be, He is always here, with and within each of us. God is all in all and no one can be apart from God. There is no separation from Him at any time.

The life of all
The Word is also our own life-force, for all life comes from it. It is the very essence and being of all things, ourselves included, the life of all that lives. There is not a living creature in all the material worlds that does not derive its life and energy from this life current. For God is life, intelligent life-force, and without Him, nothing could live for a single moment, or even exist.… Thus the love and life and power of God which brought the universe into being is our own real life, the inner spiritual energy that sustains the outer form. This current of divine life-force flows continuously into every electron in every atom of every person’s body. It flows through the human nervous system as a current of light, which is imperceptible to the physical eyes because of its high rate of vibration. It is the Word or Holy Spirit which really gives life to our bodies and sustains them. Without its invisible presence our bodies and those of all living creatures would immediately stop functioning and become inert pieces of matter.

The Supreme Being is the beating of our hearts, and the blood that pulses through our veins. He is our breathing, and the air we breathe. Thus God dwells within us and is our very life. He is so near that he hears our feeblest whisper, aye, even before we speak.

We are as close to God as we ever shall be. All that is needed is to know this by experiment and experience. And this is made abundantly possible for all who follow the path of the Masters.
_{Yoga and the Bible}