sky overhead gave me a faint taste of the same sensation. But this time it
broke off before anything materialized.
The examples given in this chapter are far from exhausting the mystical
experience of humanity.
But what do we see in them?
First of all,
unity of experience.
In mystical sensations all men definitely
feel something similar, something that has the same meaning and connection
with one another. Mystics of different centuries and nations speak the same
language and use the same words. This is the first and
most important thing
which speaks for the reality of mystical experience. Next is the complete
agreement of the results of this experience with the theoretically deduced
conditions of the world of causes -
the sensation of the
unity of all,
characteristic of mysticism; a
new sense of
time;
the sense of
infinity,
joy or
terror; the knowledge of the whole in the part; infinite life and infinite con
sciousness. All these are real facts
of sensation
in mystical experience. And
these facts are
theoretically correct.
They are such as they should be
according to the deductions of the
MATHEMATICS
OF THE INFINITE
and of
HIGHER LOGIC
. This is all that can be said about them.
CHAPTER 23
Cosmic Consciousness of
Dr Bucke. The three forms of consciousness according to
Bucke. Simple consciousness, or the consciousness of animals. Self-consciousness,
or the consciousness of men. Cosmic consciousness. In what is it expressed?
Sensation, representation, concept, higher
MORAL
concept - creative understanding.
Men of cosmic consciousness. The fall of Adam. The knowledge of good and evil.
Christ and the salvation of man. Comments on Dr Bucke's book. Birth of the new
humanity. Two races.
SUPERMAN
.
TABLE OF THE FOUR FORMS
OF MANIFESTATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Many people think that the fundamental problems of life are absolutely
insoluble, that mankind will never learn why or for what it is striving, why it
is suffering, where it is going. It is considered almost indecent to raise these
questions. One is supposed to 'take life as it comes', without thinking, or
thinking only about those things
which are capable of solution, be it only
externally. Men have despaired of finding answers to the principal questions
and have given up bothering about them.
At the same time men have a very vague idea of what it is that has
produced in them this sense of hopelessness and insolubility. Whence comes
this feeling
that about many things
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