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…istence of the human soul as distinct from the divine soul. Trismegistus, Iamblicus, Porphyry, Boehme, and the mystics generally haye of course substantially done so, though occasionally with rather inexplicable reservations, similar to those made in some cases by the Vedantists themselves. Man then being disproved, God the Person disappears for ever, and becomes Atman, Pleroma, Ain Soph, what mame you will, infinite in all directions and in all categories—to deny one is to destroy the entire argument and throw us back on to our old Dvaitistic …
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
…idola, and it is possible in this manner very largely to increase the magical “ potential,” to borrow a term from electrical science. Of course, there are bad and invalid processes, which tend rather to disperse or to excite the mind-stuff than to control it; these we must discard. But there is a true magical ceremonial, the central Arcanum alike of Eastern and Western practical transcendentalism. Needless to observe, ifI knew it, I should not disclose it. I therefore definitely affirm ‘the validity of the Qabalistic tradition in its practical …
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…ion are so anxious to prove that the uaiverse has no real existence or only a temporary and relatively unimportant one; the result is of course the usual self-destructive Advaitist muddle The precepts of morality and religion are thus of use, of vital use to us, in restraining the thore violent forces alike of nature and of man. For unless law and order prevail, we have not the necessary quiet and resources for investigating, and learning to bring under our control, all the divergent phenomena of our prison, a work which we undertake that at la…
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…s a middle path. Having projected the Absolute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute, and of course his personality is destroyed in the process. Yet it is to be feared that such an adept too often starts on the path with the hideous idea of aggrandizing his own personality to the utmost. But his method is so near to the true one that this tendency is soon corrected, as it were automatically. (The mathematical analogue of this process is to procure for yourself the realization of the nothingness of you…
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…me reasonably good ones. I hardly expect to be asked, somehow. The resulting equilibrium of God and man, des- tructive of worship, is of course absurd. We must reject it, unless we want to fall into Positivism, Material- ism, or something of the sort. But if, then, we call God infinite, how are we to regard man, and Satan? (the latter, at the very least, surely no integral part of him). ‘The fallacy lies not in my demonstration (which is also that of orthodoxy) that a finite God is absurd, but in the assumption that man has any real force. In o…
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
… us call time, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories. “ If a man be heavy and hungry, he is extended in all these, besides, of course, many more. But let us suppose that these five are all. Call the man X; his formula is then Xt+#+4+», If he now eat, he will cease to be extended in hunger; if he be cut off from time and gravitation as well, he will now be repre- sented by the formula X++*, Should he cease to occupy space and to exist, his formula would then be X*. This expression is equal to 1; whatever X may represent, if it be raise…