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16 incompatible, The existence of the universe is a standing proof of this. This is why those who seek to buttress up religion are so anxious to prove that the uaiverse has no real existence or only a temporary and relatively unimportant one; the result is of course the usual self-destructive Advaitist muddle The precepts of morality and religion are thus of use, of vital use to us, in restraining the thore violent forces alike of nature and of man. For unless law and order prevail, we have not the necessary quiet and resources for investigatin…
1903 · PDF PAGE 3
…inity of God, or of the infinity of some substance or idea actually existing, we first come to the question of the possibility of the co-existence of God and man. The Christians, in the category of the existent, enumerate among other things, whose consideration we may discard for the purposes of this argument, God, an infinite being ; man; Satan and his angels; man certainly, and Satan presumably, finite beings. These are not
1903 · PDF PAGE 6
…ean Heresy * must lead, and crushed it, have not officially admitted the precisely similar conclusion with regard to man, and denied the existence of the human soul as distinct from the divine soul. Trismegistus, Iamblicus, Porphyry, Boehme, and the mystics generally haye of course substantially done so, though occasionally with rather inexplicable reservations, similar to those made in some cases by the Vedantists themselves. Man then being disproved, God the Person disappears for ever, and becomes Atman, Pleroma, Ain Soph, what mame you will,…
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…nd are obviously different in the categories of colour, crystallisation, hardness, and so on; but are they not really so even in that of existence? The third example is to my mind the best. 2 sine 60° and V3 are unreal and therefore never conceivable, at least to the present constitution of our human intelligences. Worked out, neither has meaning; unworked, both have meaning, and that a different meaning in one case and the other. We have thus two terms, both unreal, both incon: ceivable, yet both representing intelligible and diverse ideas to …
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
…s (and himself) from Samma Samadhi to annihilation. Pray observe in the first place that my solution of the Great Problem permits the co-existence of an indefi-
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…oss and even the fine objects of its sphere can the causes, subtle and coarse, the unborn causes whose seed is hardly sown, of continued existence be grasped and annihilated, so Gite the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction. of Nirvana, while even in this world of pain, where he must remain until the ancient causes, those which have already germinated, are utterly worked out (for even the Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the
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…racti- cally are to our normal consciousness. ‘As Schopenhauer, following Buddha, points out, suffering is a necessary condition of this existence. The war of the contending forces as they grind themselves down to the final resultant must cause endless agony. We may be able to transform the categories of emotion as certainly and easily as we now transform the categories of force, so that in a few years Chicago may be importing suffering in the raw state and turning it into tinned salmon: but at present the reverse process is alone practicable. …
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…. In fact personally,I believe in them all, and admit them to possess inconcei- yable though not infinite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited and his age- long day must end. I find evidence every-where, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of ways. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest ke should be proved a liar. For had it occurred t…
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…ditions limiting and inyolving them all. Remember that it is not true to say that our 0° existed, nor that it did not exist. The idea of existence ‘was just as much unformulated as that of toasted cheese. But0? is a finite expression, or has a finite phase, and our universe is a finite universe ; its categories are themselves finite, and the expression “infinite space” isa contradiction in terms. The idea of an-absolute and ofan infinite God, is relegated to the limbo of all similar idle and pernicious perversions of truth. Infinity remains, bu…
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…ric Christian and Hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for life and individual existence, the most formidable obstacle of all, in fact a negation of the very object of all religion. Schopenhauer shows that life is assured to the will-to-live, and unless Christ (or Krishna, as the case may be) destroys these folk
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19 street) gives of the existence of the infinite. ‘“Think of a circle!" says he. ‘You will in a moment become conscious of an infinite circle around your original small one.” The fallacy is obvious. The big circle is not infinite at all, but is itself limited by the little one. But to take away the little circle, that is the method of the esoteric Christian or the mystic. But the process is never perfect, because however small the little circle becomes, its relation with the big circle is still finite. But even allowing for a moment that the A…