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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 12
…resent, if it be raised to the power of 0, (this meaning mathemat- ically “if it be extended in no dimension or category”) the result is Unity, and the unknown factor X is eliminated. A This is the Advaitist idea of the future of man; his personality, bereft of all its qualities, disappears and is lost, while in its place arises the impersonal Unity, The Pleroma, Parabrahma, or the Allah of the Unity-adoring followers of Mehammed. (To the Musulman fakir, Allah is by no means a personal God.) +I cannot here diseuss the propriety of representing …
1903 · PDF PAGE 13
Unity is thus unaffected, whether or no it be extended in any of the categories. But we have already agreed to look to 0 for a First Cause. Now if there was in truth 0 “before the beginning of years", THAT 0 WAS EXTENDED IN NONE OF THE CATEGORIES, FOR THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO CATEGORIES IN WHICH IT COULD EXTEND| [f our 0 was the ordinary 0 of mathematics, there was not truly absolute 0, for 0 is, as I have shown, dependent on the idea of categories. If these existed, then the whole question is merely thrown back; we must reach a state in which …
1903 · PDF PAGE 9
…ically 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 pr…
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
…ssion of the classical problems of philosophy and religion! In the light of this exposition the antitheses of noumenon and pheno- menon, unity and multiplicity, and their kind, are all reconciled, and the only question that remains is that of finding the most satisfactory means of attaining Nirvana —extinction of all that exists, knows, or feels; extinction final and complete, utter and absolute extinction. For by these words only can we indicate Nirvana: @ state which transcends thought cannot be described in thought’s language. But from the p…
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
15 unity, which may or may not be decently tolerable, But while we wait? ‘There now arises the question of freewill. Causality is probably not fully extended in its own category, a circumstance which gives room for a fractional amount of freewill. If this be not so, it matters little; for if I find myself in a good state, that merely proves that my destiny took me there, We are, as Herbert Spencer observes, self-deluded with the idea of freewill; but if this is so, norhing matters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it…