The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 311 (d ) This birth is prevented by Yoga . And as , on the one hand , it is so hard to drive away the thought we would fain be rid of ; so , upon the other , the pleasant imaginations which we would so gladly retain are , sooner or later , jostled away by the crowd of claimants for birth (d ) into the world of consciousness ; which hover as a sort of psychical possibilities , or inverse ghosts the bodily presentments of spiritual phenomena to be , in the limbo of the brain . To that form of desire which is called “ attention , ” the train of thought , held fast, for a time , in the desired direction , seems ever striving to get on to another line (e), and the junctions and sidings are so multitudinous . 1 (e) This is overcome by Yoga . Huxley , like Hume , diagnosed with an almost in credible minuteness all the symptoms of this mental unstability , but could not in all the wonders of their laboratories , and in all the wisdom of their pharma copoeia , discover a single or certain cure ; and yet , strange to say , it is within the grasp of all from the most ignorant clodhopper to the most sapient sage . Now turning back from the present day , we shall find that amongst those , whom we may call the divine philosophers , those in the West have in their illumina tion triumphed over those in the East . And as the spontaneous flashing of the heavens is a grander sight than the watching of an artificial thunderstorm pro · Huxley's Hume , p . 107 .