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…r small the little circle becomes, its relation with the big circle is still finite. But even allowing for a moment that the Absolute is really attainable, is the nothingness of the finity related to it really identical with that attained directly by the Buddhist Arahat? This, consistently with my former attitude, I feel constrained to deny. The consciousness of the Absolute-wala really extended infinitely rather than diminished infinitely, as he will himself assure you. True, Hegel says: “ Pure being is pure nothing!” and it is true that the i…
1903 · PDF PAGE 9
… 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 therefore never conceivable, at least to the present …
1903 · PDF PAGE 10
8 The Qabalists explain the “First Cause” * by the phrase: “FromO 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 ex…
1903 · PDF PAGE 13
…must reach a state in which the 0 is absolute. Not only must we get rid of all subjects, but of all predicates. By 0 (in mathematics) we really mean 0°, where n is the final term ofa natural scale of dimensions, categories, or predicates. Our Cosmic Egg, then, from which the present universe arose, was Nothingness, extended in no categories, or, graphically, 0°. This expression is in its present form meaningless. Let us discover its value by a simple mathematical process! 0! P=0.4=9, Multiply by 1 =" Then > xGo0xe Now the multiplying of the inf…
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
23 In yet one other way is magic a capital training- ground for the Arahat. True symbols do really awake those macrocosmic forces of which they are the cidola, 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 transcendentali…
1903 · PDF PAGE 8
…position ?, 4’ am anillusion, Externally. In reality, the true ‘I’ am the Infinite, and if the illusionary ‘I’ could only realise Who ‘T really am, how very happy we should all be!” ‘And here we have Karma, rebirth, all the mighty laws of nature operating no where in no thing! There is no room for worship or for morality in the Adyaitist system. All the specious pleas of the Bhagavad- Gita, and the ethical works of Western Advaitist philoso- phers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought. But no subtlety can turn the practical argumen…
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
…ective inertia determines; to this Law there is no exception but the doubtful one of Freewill; the Law of Destiny itself is formally and really identical with it. ‘As to an infinite intelligence, any standing are agreed that all-love an all philosophers of d all-power are
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… I have done is to represent the conversion as a change, rather than as merely another way of expressing the same thing. And “change” is really not my meaning either; for change, to our minds, involves the idea of time. But the whole thing is incon- ceivable — to ratiocination, though not to thought. Note well too that ifI say “Absence-of-book is not on the table” I cannot convert it into “All books are on the table” but only to “some books are on the table”. The proposition is an “E” and not an “*A” proposition. It is the Advaita blunder to ma…
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
17 The Hindu method is really mystical in the truest sense; for, as I have shown, the Atman is not infinite and eternal: one day it must sink down with the other forces. But by creating in thought an infinite Impersonal Personality, by defining it as such, all religions except the Buddhist, and as I believe, the Qabalistic, have sought to annihilate their own personality. The Buddhist aims directly at extinction; the Hindu denies and abolishes his own finity by the creation of an absolute, As this cannot be done in reality, the process is illus…