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These two men had
glimpses
into total
conscious
ness , of which clear consciousness , as Ribot
says, is
but
a small
portion , just
as distinct
vision
is but
a
small portion of total vision . '
The
mystic , as
the yogi , sets out to know the un
knowable , and as
“
it is just
as grave
an illusion to
attribute
morality to a stone
as
it is to think to find
the supernatural
in the world of
phenomena ," ? so in
the inmost depths of the ego alone , itself unthinkable ,
lies the source of
all
mystic experience
.
“
I
live
,
yet
not
I,
but God
in
me
.”
This
is
the suspense
of
Job
,
the sleep
of
Solomon
,
the
silence
of
St. John
,
arrived
at
by
fixing
the
mind
upon
one
single
object
of
thought
,
so
that
the
treasures
of
representation
which
lie
dormant
in
the
memory
,
flow towards
that
one
object and overwhelm
and engulf
it
in
a
divine
glory
,
as
Eckartshausen
says
:
“
With
,
however
,
the
development
of
the new organ
,
the curtain
is
all
at
once raised
,
the impenetrable veil
is
torn away
,
and
the
cloud
before the Sanctuary
lifts
,
a
new world
suddenly exists
for
us
,
scales fall from our
eyes
,
and
we
are
at
once
transported
from
the
phenomenal
world
to
the region
of
truth
.'
When
this
cloud
has
been
lifted
:
“
Eloquence
,
poetic genius
,
and every faculty transcending
human
mediocrity
,
all
represent under different
names that
destructive
,
tyrannical power which brings everything
under subjection
and which
does
not permit
the re
ception
of
ideas except
in
one single
direction
,"
•
are
i
Vide note Science and Buddhism
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
258
.
2
The Bases
of
the Mystic Knowledge
,
p
.
64
.
3
The Cloud upon
the Sanctuary
,
p
.
12
.
*
Ribot
,
The Psychology
of
Attention
.