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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 3
…of making any profound impres- sion, viz.—that my theory has the merit of explaining the divergences between three great forms of re now existing in the world—Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, and of adapting them to ontological science by conclusions not mystical but mathematical. Of Mohammedanism I shall not now treat, as my acquaint- ance with its tenets is very imperfect, and in any case it must fall under one of the three heads of Nihilism, Advaitism, and Dvaitism. Taking the ordinary hypothesis of the universe, that of its Infinity, o…
1903 · PDF PAGE 10
…O to I, as the circle opening out into the line.” The Christian dogma is really identical, for both conceive of a previous and eternally existing God, though the Qabalists hedge by describing this latent Deity as “Nor”. Later commentators, notably the illustrious MacGregorMathers, have explained this Not as Snegatively-existing”. Profound as is my respect for the intellectual and spiritual attainments of him whom I am proud to have been permitted to call my master, I am bound to express my view that when the Qabalists said Not, they meant Not, …
1903 · PDF PAGE 9
7 Consider * Darkness! Can we philosophically or actually regard as different the darkness produced by interference of light and that existing in the mere absence of light? Is Unity really indentical with .9 recurring? Do we not mean different things when we speak respectively of 2sine6o° and of y3? Charcoal and diamond are obviously different in the categories of colour, crystallisation, hardness, and so on; but are they not really so even in that of existence? The third example is to my mind the best. 2 sine 60° and V3 are unreal and therefor…
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…olutely nothing. In any category, infinity excludes finity, unless that finity be an identical part of that infinity. In the category of existing things, space being infinite, for on that hypothesis we are still working, either matter fills or does not fill it. If the former, matter is infinitely great ; if the latter, infinitely small. Whether the matter ~ 1