POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS
MISTAKES OF MYSTICS
I. Since truth is supra-rational, it is incommunicable in
the language of reason.
II. Hence all mystics have written nonsense, and what
sense they have written is so far untrue.
III. Yet as a still lake yields a truer reflection of the sun
than a torrent, he whose mind is best balanced
will, if he become a mystic, become the best
mystic.
THE METHOD OF EQUILIBRIUM
I. THE PASSIONS, Etc.
I. Since the ultimate truth of teleology is unknown, all
codes of morality are arbitrary.
II. Therefore the student has no concern with ethics
as such,
III. He is consequently free ‘to do his duty in that state
of life to which it has pleased God to call him.’
II. THE REASON
I. Since truth is supra-rational, any rational statement
is false.
II. Let the student then contradict every proposition that
presents itself to him.
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