Chapter III A Verses 61 — 67
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Such Life and Mind may therefore be utterly different to any­
thing we know of; the “girders” of their souls in other spheres 
may be other than ours.
The above argument is a case of a “girder”; we are bound 
mentally by our race-experience of the environment in which our 
own lives flourish. A pioneer choosing a camp must look for 
wood, water, perhaps shelter, perhaps game. In another planet he 
might not need any of these.
The “girders” which determine the “form” of our souls are 
therefore limitations to our thought, as well as supports. In the 
same way, rails help a train to run easily, but confine it to a 
definite direction.
The “laws” of Nature and Thought, Mathematics, Logic, and 
so on, are “girders” of this sort.
Our race-inherited conceptions of space prevented men, until 
quite recent years, from conceiving a non-Euclidean geometry, 
or the existence of a fourth Dimension.
The initiate soon becomes aware of the untruth of many of 
these limiting laws of his mind; he has to identify Being with not- 
Being, to perceive Matter as continuous and homogeneous, and 
so for many another Truth, apprehended directly by pure percep­
tion, and consequently not to be refuted by syllogistic methods. 
The Laws of Logic are thus discovered to be superficial, and their 
scope only partial.
62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of 
ordeal, which is bliss.
63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; & 
he understandeth it not.
64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as 
silver.
65. Through the second, gold.
66. Through the third, stones of precious water.
67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire.