Tertium Organum

Mahadeva.
Professor James 
on the animated world. Fechner's ideas. 
Zendavesta.
The living 
Earth. 
CHAPTER 18 
Intelligence and life. Life and knowledge. Intellect and 
emotions. Emotion as an instrument of knowledge. The 
evolution of emotions from the standpoint of knowledge. Pure 
and impure emotions. Personal and super-personal emotions. 
The elimination of self-element as a means of approach to true 
knowledge. 'Be as little children. . . .' 'Blessed are the pure in 
heart. . . .' The value of morality from the standpoint of 
knowledge. The defects of intellectualism. 'Dreadnoughts' as 
the crown of intellectual culture. The 

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dangers of moralism. Moral aestheticism. Religion and art as 
organized forms of emotional knowledge. The knowledge of 
GOD 
and the knowledge of 
BEAUTY
. 
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The intellectual method. Objective knowledge. The limits of 
objective knowledge. Possibility of expanding knowledge by 
the application of the psychological method. New forms of 
knowledge. The ideas of Plotinus. Different forms of 
consciousness. Steep (potential state of consciousness). Dreams 
(consciousness enclosed within itself, reflected from itself). 
Waking consciousness (dualistic sensation of the world). 
Ecstasy ('going out of oneself). 'Turiya' (the absolute 
consciousness of all as of oneself). 'The drop absorbing the 
ocean.' 'Nirvana.' 
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The sensation of infinity. The first test of a Neophyte. 
Intolerable sadness. Loss of everything real. What would an 
animal experience on becoming a man? Transition to a new 
logic. Our logic as based on the observation of laws of the 
phenomenal world. Its unsuitability for the study of the 
noumenal world. The need of a new logic. Analogous axioms 
in logic and mathematics. 
TWO MATHEMATICS
. The mathematics 
of real magnitudes (infinite and variable); and mathematics of 
unreal imaginary magnitudes (finite and constant). Transfinite 
numbers - numbers lying 
BEYOND INFINITY
. The possibility of 
different infinities. 
CHAPTER 21 
Necessity of abandoning our phenomenal logic for a noumenal 
approach. Science must recognize that only through poetry and 
mysticism do we approach the world of causes. Preparation 
through faith and love are necessary to overcome the terror of 
infinity. The real meaning of 'Poor in spirit'. The 
Organon
of 
Aristotle, the 
Novum Organum
of Bacon and 
Tertium Organum 
which, though often forgotten, existed before the others and is a 
key to the hidden side of life. Necessity of discarding our two­
dimensional 'idols' 

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and attempting to enumerate the properties of the 
world of 
causes. 
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'Theosophy'
of Max Müller. Ancient India. Philosophy of the 
Vedânta. 
Tat tvam asi. 
Perception by expanded consciousness 
as a reality. Mysticism of different ages and peoples. Similarity 
of experiences. 
Tertium Organum
as a key to mysticism. Signs
of the noumenal world. Treatise of Plotinus. 'On Intelligible
Beauty' as a system of higher logic which is not understood. 
Illumination of Jacob Boehme. 'A harp of many strings, of 
which each string is a separate instrument, while the whole is 
only one harp.' Mysticism of the 
Philokalia, 
St Avva Dorotheus 
and others. Clement of Alexandria. Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu. 
Light on the Path
and