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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 12
…sides, 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 cease to occupy space and to exist, his formula would then be X*. This expression is equal to 1; whatever X may represent, if it be raised to the power of 0, (this meaning mathemat- ically “if it be extended in no dimension or category”) the result is Unity, and t…
1903 · PDF PAGE 24
…ity, 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 finished mental athletes.…
1903 · PDF PAGE 8
…axiomata that have passed current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present my theory, _ I clearly foresee the one difficulty, and will discuss it in advance. If my conclusions on this point are not accepted, we may at once get back to our previous irri- table agnosticism, and look for our Messiah elsewhere. But if we can see together on this one point, I think _ things will go fairly smoothly afterwards.
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…ist recluse is roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will- power, meditation, rapture, such are the stages of his liberation, which resolves itself into a struggle against the law of causality. He cannot prevent past causes taking effect, but he can prevent present causes from haying any future results. The exoteric 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 …
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
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…
1903 · PDF PAGE 6
…Vedantists themselves. Man then being disproved, God the Person disappears for ever, and becomes Atman, Pleroma, Ain Soph, what mame you will, infinite in all directions and in all categories—to deny one is to destroy the entire argument and throw us back on to our old Dvaitistic bases. * The concey of the Hexagram, ion of Satan as a positive evil force; the lower triangle
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
…nfinite God; infinite space, time, and so on, no other conclusion is possible. Mr. Mansel is found in the impossible position of one who will neither give up his premisses nor dispute the validity of his logical processes, but who shrinks in horror from the inevitable conclusion ; he supposes there must be something. wrong somewhere, and concludes that the sole use of reason is to discover its own inferiority to faith. As Deussen “ well points out, faith in the Christian sense merely amounts to being convinced on insufficient grounds. This is s…
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…ightiness might well recoil baffled !—I much fear that eternal life, and con- sequently eternal suffering, joy, and change of all kinds, will be their melancholy fate! Such persons are in truth their own real enemies. Many of them, however, believing erroneously that they are being “unselfish,” do fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the me…
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
15 unity, which may or may not be decently tolerable, But while we wait? ‘There now arises the question of freewill. Causality is probably not fully extended in its own category, a circumstance which gives room for a fractional amount of freewill. If this be not so, it matters little; for if I find myself in a good state, that merely proves that my destiny took me there, We are, as Herbert Spencer observes, self-deluded with the idea of freewill; but if this is so, norhing matters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it…