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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 12
…ness is that about which no positive pro- position is valid. We cannot truly affirm : ‘Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.” Let us call time, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories. “ If a man be heavy and hungry, he is extended in all these, besides, of course, many more. But let us suppose that these five are all. Call the man X; his formula is then Xt+#+4+», If he now eat, he will cease to be extended in hunger; if he be cut off from time and gravitation as well, he will now be repre- sented by the formula X++*, Should he ceas…
1903 · PDF PAGE 6
…a mile makes no difference; it is infinitely small—in effect, Nothing. The unmathematical illusion that it does exist is what the Hindus call Maya. If, on the other hand, the matter-universe is infinite, Brahm and God are crowded out, and the possibility of religion is equally excluded. We may now shift our objective. The Hindus cannot account intelligibly, though they try hard, for Maya, the cause of all suffering. Their position is radically weak, but at least we may say for them that they have tried to square their religion with their common…
1903 · PDF PAGE 24
… of every one ; not all possess the ability; very few indeed (in the west at least) have’ the opportunity, In any case what the Easterns call “one-pointedness”” is an essential preliminary to even early stages of true meditation. And iron will-power is a still earlier qualifi- cation. By meditation I do not mean merely “thinking about” anything, however profoundly, but the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross, fine, or altogether spiritual. Now true magical ceremonial is entirely directed to atta…
1903 · PDF PAGE 10
…ely-existing”. Profound as is my respect for the intellectual and spiritual attainments of him whom I am proud to have been permitted to call my master, I am bound to express my view that when the Qabalists said Not, they meant Not, and nothing else. In fact, I really claim to have re-discovered the long-lost and central Arcanum of those divine philosophers. Thave no serious objection to a finite god, or gods, distinet from men and things. In fact personally,I believe in them all, and admit them to possess inconcei- yable though not infinite po…
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…s of course absurd. We must reject it, unless we want to fall into Positivism, Material- ism, or something of the sort. But if, then, we call God infinite, how are we to regard man, and Satan? (the latter, at the very least, surely no integral part of him). ‘The fallacy lies not in my demonstration (which is also that of orthodoxy) that a finite God is absurd, but in the assumption that man has any real force. In our mechanical system (as I have hinted above), if one of the forces be infinite, the others, however great, are both relatively and …
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
…aves no chances of this kind; in all his categories he is infinitely unextended; though the * The Hindus see this as well as anyone, and call Atman Sat ~chit~ ananda, these being alone the pairs of opposites, rather on the Hegelian, Vines of the reconciliation (rather than the identity) of opposites in a We have dismissed infinity as the figment of a morbid ‘mathematic: but in any case the same disproof applies to it as to'God.