THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
obtained possession of his sight were suddenly to return to a
state of blindness, would have great difficulty in explaining to
his blind brothers the sights he had seen, in fact none would
believe him, and his difficulty in explaining in the language of
blind-land the wonders of the land of sight would probably be
so great that he would find more consolation in silence than in
an attempted explanation: this has generally been the case
with the true adepts; and those who have tried to explain
themselves have been called mad by the canaiile.
“The truth is,” continues the Mystic, “ both of you have
been talking foolishness through your material and idealistic
hats. For:
“In the Material World Matter is Existence.
“Tn the Sensible World Sense is Existence.
“In the Spiritual World Spirit is Existence.
“And though in the Sensible World a cow or an angel
exists solely as an idea to us, this does not preclude the
possibility of a cow existing as beef in the Material World,
or an angel as a spirit in the Spiritual World.”
“The fact is,” interrupts the Sceptic, “I doubt all three of
you; for from the above you all three infer a chain of events—
whether material, sensual, or spiritual, thus postulating the
Existence of Causality as a common property of these three
worlds. Let us strike out Matter, Sense and Spirit, and what
is left? Surely not Time and Space, that twin inference con-
ceived by that Matter, Sense and Spirit we have just put
to bed.”
“Don’t you think,” says the Scientific Illuminist, “that
instead of dreaming all your lives it would be a good thing to
wake up and doa little work? Thereare four of you, and the
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