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… 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 attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already…
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
23 In yet one other way is magic a capital training- ground for the Arahat. True symbols do really awake those macrocosmic forces of which they are the cidola, and it is possible in this manner very largely to increase the magical “ potential,” to borrow a term from electrical science. Of course, there are bad and invalid processes, which tend rather to disperse or to excite the mind-stuff than to control it; these we must discard. But there is a true magical ceremonial, the central Arcanum alike of Eastern and Western practical transcendentali…
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…, 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 the path with the hideous idea of aggrand…
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
12 by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, colours, forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos.: and with time, space and causality, the conditions 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 e…
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
…eny. 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 identical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right side of …
1903 · PDF PAGE 8
6 What is the sum total of the Vedantist position ?, 4’ am anillusion, Externally. In reality, the true ‘I’ am the Infinite, and if the illusionary ‘I’ could only realise Who ‘T really am, how very happy we should all be!” ‘And here we have Karma, rebirth, all the mighty laws of nature operating no where in no thing! There is no room for worship or for morality in the Adyaitist system. All the specious pleas of the Bhagavad- Gita, and the ethical works of Western Advaitist philoso- phers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought. But n…
1903 · PDF PAGE 23
…wever, by what dissenters have replaced it! I take this to be an error, except in the case of the very advanced Yogi. For there exists a true magical cere- monial, vital and direct, whose purpose has, however, at any rate of recent times, been hopelessly misunderstood. Nobody any longer supposes that any means but that of meditation is of avail to grasp the immediate causes of our being; if some person retorts that he prefers to rely on a Glorified Redeemer, I simply answer that he is the very nobody to whomI now refer. Meditation is then the m…
1903 · PDF PAGE 15
…Advaitism. The third, the only remaining theory, this theory, must, however antecedently improbable, however difficult to assimilate, be true. ” “My friend, my young friend,” I think I hear some Christian cleric say, with an air of profound wisdom, not untinged with pity, condescending to pose beardless and brainless\ impertinence : “where is the C a us e for this truly remarkable change”?