wholes of
some categories either entirely incomprehensible to us or only partially
suspected. The essence of each of such separate beings must consist in
knowing itself
and its most intimate functions and
relations; it must feel the things which are
analogous to itself and must be able to tell about itself and them. In other words, this
consciousness
must consist in always having before it
a picture of itself and
its most
intimate relations It is eternally reviewing this picture, as it were, and immediately
transmits it to another being upon entering into communication with it.
Whether these beings belonging to sections of the world other than ours exist or not
we cannot tell in the
existing conditions of our perception.
Only a transformed mind
can sense them Our ordinary perception and thinking is too
absorbed in the sensations
of the phenomenal world and
in itself and
therefore does not reflect impressions
coming from other beings, or reflects them so feebly that they do
not become fixed in it
in any perceptible form And we do not realize that we are in constant communication
with the
noumenon
of everything surrounding us, both far and near, with beings both
similar to us and totally different from us, with the lives of everything in the world and
with the life of the whole world. If, however, the impressions coming from other
beings are so strong
that our mind senses them, it immediately projects them into the
external phenomenal world and seeks a cause for them in the phenomenal world,
exactly like a two-dimensional being living on a plane
seeks on its own plane
the
causes of impressions which come from the higher world.
Our mind is limited by its phenomenal perception, i.e. is encompassed in itself. The
world of phenomena, i.e. the form of its own perception, encloses it
like a ring, like a
wall, and it does not see anything apart from this wall
But if it manages to escape beyond this surrounding wall, it inevitably sees a great
many new things in the world.
If we get rid of self-elements in our perception, writes Hinton (A
New Era of
Thought),
then —
it will be found that the deadness which we ascribe to the external world is not really
there, but is put in by us because of our own limitations It is really the
self-elements in
our knowledge which make us talk of mechanical necessity, dead matter When our
limitations fall, we behold the spirit of the world as we behold the spirit of a friend
something which is discerned in and through the material presentation of a body to us
Our thought means are sufficient at present to show us human souls, but
all except human beings is,
as far as science is concerned, inanimate Our self-element
must be got rid of from our perception, and this will be changed*
And is the unknowableness of the noumenal world indeed as absolute for us as it
sometimes appears?
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