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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 24
…f the body, every force-channel of the mind, is strained out in one. overwhelming rush of the Will in the direction desired. Such is the real purport of all the apparently fantastic directions of Solomon, Abramelin, and other sages of repute. When a man has evoked and mastered such forces as Taphtartarath, Belial, Amaimon, and the great powers of the elements, then he may safely be permitted to begin to try to stop thinking. For, needless to say, the universe, including the thinker, exists only by virtue of the thinker’s thought.
1903 · PDF PAGE 16
…nd causality themselves finite (inconceivable as it may seem) with our individuality, and all the illusions’; of the Advaitists, just as real as they practi- cally are to our normal consciousness. ‘As Schopenhauer, following Buddha, points out, suffering is a necessary condition of this existence. The war of the contending forces as they grind themselves down to the final resultant must cause endless agony. We may be able to transform the categories of emotion as certainly and easily as we now transform the categories of force, so that in a few…
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…niverse is a standing proof of this. This is why those who seek to buttress up religion 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 cont…
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…, and con- sequently eternal suffering, joy, and change of all kinds, will be their melancholy fate! Such persons are in truth their own real enemies. Many of them, however, believing erroneously that they are being “unselfish,” do fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some devotees on to the true Path of the Wise, unpr…
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…llacy 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 our mechanical system (as I have hinted above), if one of the forces be infinite, the others, however great, are both relatively and absolutely 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. …
1903 · PDF PAGE 4
2 aspects of one being, but separate and even antagonistic existences. All are equally real: we cannot accept mystics of the type of Caird as being orthodox exponents of the religion of Christ. The Hindus enumerate Brahm, infinite in all dimen- sions and directions—indistinguishable from the Pleroma ‘of the Gnostics—and Maya, illusion. This is in a sense the antithesis of noumenon and phenomenon, noumenon being negated of all predicates until it becomes almost ex- tinguished in the Nichts under the title of the Alles. (of Max Muller on the meta…