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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 23
21 nite number of means: they need not even be compatible; Karma, rebirth, Providence, prayer, sacrifice, baptism, there is room for all. On the old and, I hope, now finally discredited hypothesis of an infinite being, the sup- porters of these various ideas, while explicitly affirming them, implicitly denied. Similarly, note that the Qaba- listic idea of a supreme God (and innumerable hierarchies) is quite compatible with this theory, provided that the supreme God is not infinite. Now as to our weapons. The more advanced Yogis of the Bast, lik…
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
… unity and multiplicity, and their kind, are all reconciled, and the only question that remains is that of finding the most satisfactory means of attaining Nirvana —extinction of all that exists, knows, or feels; extinction final and complete, utter and absolute extinction. For by these words only can we indicate Nirvana: @ state which transcends thought cannot be described in thought’s language. But from the point of view of thought extinction is complete: we have no data for discussing that which is unthinkable, and must decline to do so. Thi…
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
…ith imaginary food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? Why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then?” * Encyclopedia Britannica. Art. Metaphysics. + The Principles of Mevaphysics, Macmillan.
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…he earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some devotees on to the true Path of the Wise, unpromising as such material must sound to intelligent ears. The esoteric Christian or Hindu adopts a middle path. Having projected the Absolute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute, and of course his personality is destroyed in the process. Yet it is to be feared that such an adept too often starts on…
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
…personal Unity, The Pleroma, Parabrahma, or the Allah of the Unity-adoring followers of Mehammed. (To the Musulman fakir, Allah is by no means a personal God.) +I cannot here diseuss the propriety of representing the categories a& dimensfons, It-will be obvious to anystudent of the integeal calculi, OF {© anyone who appreciates the geometrical sigaincance of the rm X*