The Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Theosophical Society |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2018-01-10 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780428782382 |
Excerpt from The Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 7 Suppose, for example, says Mr. James, in the essay on Human Immortality, that the whole universe of material things - the furni ture of earth and choir of heaven - should turn out to be a mere surface-veil of phenomena, hiding and keeping back the world of genuine realities. Such a supposition is foreign neither to common sense nor to philosophy. Common sense believes in realities behind the veil, even too superstitiously; and idealistic philosophy declares the whole world of natural experience, as we get it, to be but a time-mask, shattering or refracting the one infinite Thought which is the sole reality into those millions of finite streams of conscious ness known to us as our private selves. Life, like a dome of many coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. Suppose, now, that this were really so, and suppose, moreover, that the dome, opaque enough at all times to the full super-solar blaic, could at certain times and places grow less so, and let certain beams pierce through into this sublunary world. These beams would be so many finite rays, so to speak, of consciousness, and they would vary in quantity and quality as the opacity varied in degree. Only at particular times and places would it seem that, as a matter of fact, the veil of nature can grow thin and rupturable enough for such effects to occur. But in those places gleams, however finite and unsatisfying, are from time to time vouchsafed. Glows of feeling, glimpses of insight, and streams of knowledge and perception float into our finite world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.