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…n in Kether no illusions matter. Therefore: To the man in Kether neither boots nor hats matter. In fact, the man in Kether is out of all relation to these boots and hats. 125
…u mean by Samadhi? There is a physiological (or pathological; never mind now!) state which I call Samadhi; and that state is as real— in relation to man—as sleep, or intoxication, or death. Philosophically, we may doubt the existence of all of these ; but we have no grounds for discriminating between them— 124
…wall—what is matter? and an infinity of physiological researches, each (similarly) leading to the blank wall—what is mind ? Even so, the relation between the two ideas is unthink- able; causality is itself unthinkable; it depends, for one thing, upon experience—and what, in God’s name, is experi- 114
…n our series PLl?tPl?...12?1?... we care nothing as to which may prove the final term, any single term being so negligible a quantity in relation to the vastness of the series? Is it not a series of geometrical progression, with a factor positive and incalculably vast? In the light of the whole process, then, we perceive that there is no absolute value in the swing of the pendulum, though its shaft lengthen, its rate grow slower, and its sweep wider at every swing. What should interest us is the consideration of the Point from which it hangs, m…
… you not wear boots on your head and hats on your feet ? I can only answer that I the man in Kether (‘tis but an argument) am out of all relation as much with feet and heads as with boots and hats. But why should I (from my exalted pinnacle) stoop down and worry the headed and footed gentle- man in Malkuth, who after all doesn’t exist for me, by these drastic alterations in his toilet? There is no distinction whatever ; I might easily put the boots on his shoulders, with his head on one foot and the hat on the other. In short, why not be a clea…