THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH
XIV
“There is a certain Intelligible One whom it becometh you
to understand with the Flower of Mind.”
“Having mingled the Vital Spark, from two according sub-
stances, Mind and Divine Spirit, as a third to these He added
Holy Love, the venerable Charioteer uniting all things.”
“Filling the Soul with profound Love.”
“The Soul of man does in a manner clasp God to herself.
Having nothing mortal, she is wholly inebriated with God. For
she glorieth in the harmony under which the mortal body sub-
sisteth.”
“ As rays of Light his locks flow forth, ending in acute points.
ZOROASTER,
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Vedana.—Pertaining to Sensation we may first notice in
the beginner’s concentrating mind the class of distracting
thoughts which refer to the emotions. The taking of pleasure
in, or the endurance of pain from, the meditation itself is in
particular to be dreaded.
Of mystic phenomena we may notice the immense class of
devotional apparitions. Vishnu, Christ, Jehovah and other
deities appear in response to long-continued and passionate
love. See ‘‘ Bhagavad Gita,” chap. xi., the visions of many
Catholic saints, Teresa, Gertrude, Francis and others, Anna
Kingsford (‘Clothed with the Sun,” Part III.), Idra Rabba
Qadisha and so on.
The Virgin Mary is a favourite with many; it is all one
phenomenon.
Observe, though, that many such apparitions are not of the
Dhyana type at all; they are mostly mere hallucinations of
the ‘astral plane.” In section xiii. we have indicated the
diagnostics.
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