THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH
VI
“The Intelligible is the principle of all section.”
“The Mind of the Father whirled forth in re-echoing roar,
comprehending by invincible Will Ideas omniform ; which flying
forth from that one fountain issued ; for from the Father alike
was the Will and the End (by which are they connected with
the Father according to alternating life, through varying vehicles),
But they were divided asunder, being by Intellectual Fire distri-
buted into other Intellectuals. For the King of all previously
placed before the polymorphous World a Type, intellectual,
incorruptible, the imprint of whose form is sent forth through
the World, by which the Universe shone forth decked with Ideas
all-various, of which the foundation is One, One and alone,
From this the others rush forth distributed and separated through
thevarious bodies of the Universe, and are borne inswarms through
its vast abysses, ever whirling forth in illimitable radiation.
“ They are intellectual conceptions from the Paternal Fountain
partaking abundantly of the brilliance of Fire in the culmination
of unresting Time.
“But the primary self-perfect Fountain of the Father poured
forth these primogenial Ideas.”
“The Soul, being a brilliant Fire, by the power of the Father
remaineth immortal, and is Mistress of Life, and filleth up the
many recesses of the bosom of the World.”—ZoroasTER.
The alleged annihilation of time and space, which so fre-
quently reappears in articles on hashish, seems to me solved
more simply by a more accurate analysis of the phenomenon.
The normal explanation involves the assumption that man
naturally possesses a perfect and infallible “‘time-sense” as
regular as a clock. Which is absurd; were it so, we should
not need watches. We are accustomed to work (whether the
idea be philosophically tenable or not is not german to the
matter) with a minimum cogitabile both of space and of time.
Just as a definite number of beats of the pendulum makes an
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