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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 21
…t Arahat? This, consistently with my former attitude, I feel constrained to deny. The consciousness of the Absolute-wala really extended infinitely rather than diminished infinitely, as he will himself assure you. True, Hegel says: “ Pure being is pure nothing!” and it is true that the infinite heat and cold, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, and all the other pairs of opposites * cancel one another out: yet I feel rather afraid of this Absolute! Maybe its joy and sorrow are represented in phases, just as 0° and finity are phases of an identi…
1903 · PDF PAGE 13
…gless. Let us discover its value by a simple mathematical process! 0! P=0.4=9, Multiply by 1 =" Then > xGo0xe Now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the infinitely small results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE NUMBER EXTENDED IN AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CATEGORIES. It happened, when this our Great Inversion took place, from the essence of all nothingness to finity extended in innumerable categories, that an incalculably vast system was produced. Merely
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…gs, space being infinite, for on that hypothesis we are still working, either matter fills or does not fill it. If the former, matter is infinitely great ; if the latter, infinitely small. Whether the matter ~ 1
1903 · PDF PAGE 6
4 universe be 101° light-years in diameter or half 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 ha…