Cosmic Language

by Inayat Khan

The whole manifestation in all its aspects is a record upon which the voice is reproduced; and that voices is a person's thought. There is no place in the world, neither a desert, a forest, a mountain, nor a whole house, a town or city, where there is not a voice continually going on which was once engraved upon it and since then has continued. The secret of the idea of a blessing to be found in the holy places lies in this that the holy Place is no longer a place, it has become a living being. God is omniscient, omnipotent, all pervading, and the Only Being. This suggests to us that the Absolute is Living Being, the Only Being; that there is no such thing as death, there is no such thing as an end; that everything, every being, every particle, has a continuity, because life is continual; end or death is only a change. Therefore every thought that has once crossed the mind, everything that has once passed through the heart, every word that is once spoken and perhaps never thought about any longer, every action once done and forgotten, is given a life, and it continues to live. -Hazrat Inayat Khan

131 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Sue Dounim · Rating 3 out of 5]

The excerpt that Goodreads gives for this book is the same as that on the back cover. It's pretty typical of its tone and language. The book itself states that it's essentially a record of lectures given by Khan to his students at a Summer School in 1924.
Khan speaks mainly at the metaphysical level without religious discussion. As I presume he was lecturing in English he does occasionally use quotes from the well known Middle Eastern works in English of that time: Jelal ad din Rumi, the "Rubiyat" and one or two quotes from the Koran. There are some interesting concepts, but the concepts are all abstract metaphysics and there is no discussion of practical application. He uses the terms "God", "Divine Spirit", and refers to faqirs and dervishes but I don't think the term "Sufi" is used.