Chapter 36 - The Essential Being

The Essential Being introduces a presence that is difficult to name because it does not belong to one place, kingdom or element. It is described as the vital matter, the vital essence of everything. After many chapters on distinct forces and intelligences, this teaching turns toward what they all share: the essence beneath every source, soul, life force, Deva, human being, animal and kingdom of nature.

The central idea is commonality. The Essential Being is presented as the medium between the Godhead and the life force, the link that allows different forms of existence to have a shared root and purpose. Without such a common essence, communion between mankind and the nature kingdoms would be impossible. With it, relationship becomes more than goodwill. It becomes a fact of shared being.

The image of glue appears again, but here it is not only cosmic or structural. The essential essence is the flux that holds life together from within. It is the basis of everything, a common source linked to the Godhead. This gives the teaching a quiet depth. What seems divided at the surface may be joined at the root, because the same essence moves through all forms.

The timing is important. The vibrational level of all life force is said to be changing, and the Essential Being is the vehicle through which that gear shift takes place. Because it is present within everything, any change in vibration must pass through it. The teaching therefore makes this essence both foundational and active. It is not merely an abstract principle. It is the medium of transformation.

The voice also presents itself humbly, almost informally. It does not try to explain everything at once. The group is asked first to become familiar with the notion before more involved teachings arrive. That makes the chapter feel like an introduction to a new layer of the book’s cosmology. Something essential has entered, but its full meaning will unfold over time.

This humility is part of the beauty of the passage. The Essential Being is described as the source of all life force, yet the communication does not become grandiose. It admits the difficulty of expression. It recognises that new concepts need time to settle into the mind. The teaching itself becomes an act of gradual introduction, allowing the reader to sit with the possibility of a shared essence before demanding comprehension.

Placed after the chapter on communion, this teaching gives that communion its deepest reason. Mankind can reach toward the elemental kingdoms because all are already held within a common source. The Essential Being is the unseen kinship beneath the visible variety of life, the shared substance that makes relationship possible before any deliberate practice begins.

For the reader, The Essential Being offers a way to understand communion at its deepest level. Human life, elemental life, animal life, Devic life and spiritual source are not connected only by intention or sympathy. They are connected because they arise from a shared essence. To recognise that is to see unity not as an idea imposed upon difference, but as the hidden ground from which difference appears.