BEING in the Absolute, in that first originating plane of Pure Spirit where, because the Material does not yet exist, there can be no extension in space, and consequently no sequence in time, and where therefore the only possible mode of being is the consciousness of Self-existence without limitation either of space or time, the realisation of the "universal Here and the everlasting Now", the concentration of the All into the Point and the expansion of the Point into the All.

[see also Lecture 3 in The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science --- Ed].

The Egyptian Connection

But though this may have been a new announcement to the masses of the Hebrew people, it could have been no new announcement for Moses, for we are told in the Acts that Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, a circumstance which is fully accounted for by his education at the court of Pharaoh, where he would be as a matter of course initiated into the deepest mysteries of the Egyptian religion. He must therefore have been familiar from boyhood with the words, "I AM that I AM", which as the inscription "Nuk pu Nuk" appeared on the walls of every temple; and having received the highest instruction in the land, brought up as the son of Pharaoh's daughter, he must have been well aware of their significance. But this instruction had hitherto